A WOMAN SETS A FLOATING CANDLE LANTERN ON THE RIVER AUG. 6 IN HIROSHIMA, JAPAN. THE LANTERNS, THOUSANDS OF WHICH WERE LAUNCHED ON THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ATOMIC BOMBING OF THE CITY, BEAR HANDMADE MESSAGES AND DRAWINGS, CONVEYING EACH PERSON'S PRAYERS FOR PEACE AND COMFORT FOR THE VICTIMS OF THE VIOLENCE. IN THE BACKGROUND ARE THE RUINS OF A BUILDING DAMAGED BY THE BOMB AND NOW CONVERTED INTO A PEACE MEMORIAL. / PHOTO: (CNS PHOTO/PAUL JEFFREY)
A GIRL SETS A FLOATING CANDLE LANTERN ON THE RIVER AUG. 6 IN HIROSHIMA, JAPAN. THE LANTERNS, THOUSANDS OF WHICH WERE LAUNCHED ON THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ATOMIC BOMBING OF THE CITY, BEAR HANDMADE MESSAGES AND DRAWINGS, CONVEYING EACH PERSON'S PRAYERS FOR PEACE AND COMFORT FOR THE VICTIMS OF THE VIOLENCE. / PHOTO: (CNS PHOTO/PAUL JEFFREY)
PEOPLE PRAY AT A MEMORIAL IN HIROSHIMA, JAPAN, AUG. 6, TO COMMEMORATE THE VICTIMS OF THE ATOMIC BOMBING OF THE CITY BY THE UNITED STATES IN 1945. DELEGATION MEMBERS FROM THE WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES, IN HIROSHIMA FOR THE COMMEMORATION, SAID THEY WOULD RETURN HOME TO BUILD A MOVEMENT TO RID THE WORLD OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS./ PHOTO: (CNS PHOTO/PAUL JEFFREY)
A JAPANESE GIRL DISPLAYS FOLDED PAPER CRANES AUG. 5 SHE HAS BROUGHT TO HIROSHIMA IN COMMEMORATION OF THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE U.S. DROPPING AN ATOMIC BOMB ON THE JAPANESE CITY OF HIROSHIMA. THE CRANES ARE A SIGN OF HOPE AND PEACE. / PHOTO: (CNS PHOTO/PAUL JEFFREY)
A JAPANESE GIRL DISPLAYS FOLDED PAPER CRANES AUG. 5 SHE HAS BROUGHT TO HIROSHIMA IN COMMEMORATION OF THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE U.S. DROPPING AN ATOMIC BOMB ON THE JAPANESE CITY OF HIROSHIMA. THE CRANES ARE A SIGN OF HOPE AND PEACE. / PHOTO: (CNS PHOTO/PAUL JEFFREY)
The 70th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima was remembered yesterday all over the world.
A moment of silence at 8:15 a.m. local time, marked the moment when the United States dropped the bomb. Some 70,000 were killed that day and tens of thousands of others died from the effects of the blast.
The images above were taken as people prayed for peace and honored those who died.
